Field Talent - CLR - Software Engineer Full Stack

Northwestern Mutual•Milwaukee, WI

About The Position

At Northwestern Mutual, we strongly believe in internal growth and career development. We're so excited that you are interested in growing your career with us! CLR software engineering team at Northwestern Mutual under Field Career area of Career Distribution is responsible building high-quality modern applications used to help our clients service their products. We are seeking a strong senior full-stack software engineer skilled in Java, Node and ReactJS. What You’ll Do Translating business and technical requirements into solutions Design, develop and maintain full-stack applications using Java, NodeJS and ReactJS. Monitoring and troubleshooting applications, services, and systems for performance and issues. Demonstrated critical thinking, ownership mentality and continuous learning. Design and build out solutions for systems via enterprise AWS platform. Providing technical leadership, mentorship, and documentation to other members of the team. Partners with business functions and product management to define, determine, analyze, document and communicate the business requirements and priorities for our solutions. Works with application and technical experts on the solution design, implementation, support, maintenance and enhancement of the information systems utilizing agile methods. Identifying, establishing, and sharing standards and best practices for team. Utilizes working relationships across teams within their division.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
3-4 years of extensive REST API development experience using Java with Sprint Boot.
3-4 years of strong experience with NodeJS and ReactJS in a full-stack environment.
3+ years of experience working with modern engineering tools, languages and practices.
Modern cloud environment experience. Preferably with AWS Cloud platform, Docker, and Kubernetes.
Experience creating unit and integration tests using Java, NodeJs and JavaScript testing tools.
Experience in Demonstrated critical thinking, ownership mindset and continuous learning.
Advanced skillset in one or more technical platforms (Java, NodeJs, ReactJs).
Ability to perform peer reviews on code and design.
Solid understanding of design patterns and architecture
Experience with AWS technologies and services
Experience with Dev Ops, specifically with the AWS tech stack and GitLab CI pipelines.
Experience as a mentor, tech lead or providing technical mentorship to group of engineers.

Nice To Haves

Experience in BPM product development is (Like Flowable, Camunda, Activiti , Unqork or Pega)is bonus.
Experience in financial services or similar regulated industries is plus.

Responsibilities

Translating business and technical requirements into solutions
Design, develop and maintain full-stack applications using Java, NodeJS and ReactJS.
Monitoring and troubleshooting applications, services, and systems for performance and issues.
Demonstrated critical thinking, ownership mentality and continuous learning.
Design and build out solutions for systems via enterprise AWS platform.
Providing technical leadership, mentorship, and documentation to other members of the team.
Partners with business functions and product management to define, determine, analyze, document and communicate the business requirements and priorities for our solutions.
Works with application and technical experts on the solution design, implementation, support, maintenance and enhancement of the information systems utilizing agile methods.
Identifying, establishing, and sharing standards and best practices for team.
Utilizes working relationships across teams within their division.